Lend me your ears : great speeches in history by William Safire(
Book
)30
editions published
between
1992
and
2014
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
4,382 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"No one faced with the need to go before an audience of any size to argue, persuade, uplift, introduce, memorialize, or amuse
should be without Lend Me Your Ears. It serves equally as a work of permanent reference use and as a treasure-house for the
browser in search of inspiration, instruction, and entertainment. In this anthology, editor and subject matter have met to
result in a book that draws from the ages - and that will last for decades as the definitive word on human eloquence."--Jacket

Freedom by William Safire(
Book
)15
editions published
between
1984
and
1995
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
2,373 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
On cover: A novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. A historical novel exploring the first two years of the Civil War

Safire's political dictionary by William Safire(
Book
)24
editions published
between
1972
and
2008
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
2,227 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This entertaining and informative dictionary lists words and phrases peculiar to government officials and politicians, analyzing
their meanings and tracing their origins

Before the fall : an inside view of the pre-Watergate White House by William Safire(
Book
)28
editions published
between
1968
and
2017
in
English
and held by
1,880 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The former Nixon speechwriter provides anecdotal accounts of the people, policies, events, and atmosphere in the Nixon White
House before the Watergate evacuation

On language by William Safire(
Book
)20
editions published
between
1980
and
1983
in
4
languages
and held by
1,655 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Written by a New York Times columnist renowned for his crotchety wit, this tome enlightens readers concerning proper usage,
correct pronunciation, the roots of daily discourse, and the vacuous lingo in which "subsume" is co-opting "co-opt", word-burning
stoves become "energy systems", and stores that sell eyeglasses squint out at the public as "vision centers". The author is
aided in his campaign for precision and clarity in language by a legion of word buffs, language lovers, and learned eccentrics

Full disclosure : a novel by William Safire(
Book
)43
editions published
between
1977
and
2009
in
4
languages
and held by
1,634 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In the mid-1980's, the forty-first President of the United States is blinded in an assassination attempt and must cope with
an international crisis and with domestic pressure demanding his resignation

Scandalmonger by William Safire(
Book
)9
editions published
between
1999
and
2014
in
English
and held by
1,515 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This volume unveils the story behind the nation's first great political scandals. James Thomson Callender, the "scandalmonger"
of the title, is an ambitious gossip-peddling editor secretly hired by Thomas Jefferson as a political weapon. After carefully
damaging Alexander Hamilton's reputation, thereby paving the way for Jefferson's success, Callender is shunned by the very
politicians on whose behalf he was jailed for sedition. Broke and betrayed, Callender seeks revenge by exposing an illicit
affair between Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemmings, an accusation that ultimately cost Callender his career and would not
be authenticated for two centuries. By using actual letters, records, and notes to re-create dialog and events, this work
embodies historical fiction at its best, politics at its most intriguing, and our Founding Fathers at their most notorious.
For those who think that Washington sex scandals and lurid journalism are recent developments, this novel will be a revelation,
for it shows how media intrusiveness into private lives-and politicians' cool manipulation of the press-are practices as old
as the Constitution

The first dissident : the book of Job in today's politics by William Safire(
Book
)8
editions published
between
1992
and
2011
in
English
and held by
1,147 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
William Safire, one of America's most influential political columnists, applies the Book of Job to the politics of today.
In The First Dissident he shows how modern heroes have reshaped authority and history - and how individual citizens can, too
- by following the courageous example of Job. The Bible's Book of Job is the story of a good man who dares to challenge God's
judgment. Job's search for the answer to apparent injustice in God's design has stirred religious controversy and inspired
readers for 2,500 years. Tennyson called the Book of Job "the greatest poem of ancient and modern times." D.H. Lawrence described
it as "the story of your own soul." Safire's provocative exploration interprets Job - the innocent, angry sufferer - as the
original dissenter. He shows how the biblical story can serve as inspiration and instruction manual for modern leaders and
citizens, a primer on effective protest - when to dissent, how to force authority to listen, what kinds of persuasion work,
why it is important for leaders to avoid isolation. He illuminates the timeless role of dissent in shaping power and influencing
even the highest authority. And he draws modern-day parallels in the struggles of such human rights leaders as Mustapha Barzani,
Martin Luther King, Jr., Natan Sharansky, Vaclav Havel, and others. The First Dissident is written in William Safire's insightful
style of informal scholarship and is studded with anecdotes and examples drawn from Safire's wide-ranging political experience
in the White House as speechwriter and in covering global politics for The New York Times. The First Dissident reaches across
the millennia to show how any person, armed with a sense of righteousness, can engage with higher authority to protest unfair
treatment - and thereby change the world

Sleeper spy by William Safire(
Book
)11
editions published
between
1995
and
1999
in
3
languages
and held by
1,100 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A hunt by CIA and Russian agents for the old KGB's financial assets in the U.S., in possession of a spy whose name is unknown
even to the Russians because files were destroyed. Leading the U.S. effort to lure the man into the open is an American journalist

What's the good word? by William Safire(
Book
)6
editions published
between
1982
and
1983
in
English
and held by
1,067 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Take my word for it : more On language by William Safire(
Book
)8
editions published
between
1986
and
1987
in
English
and held by
926 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Includes material on slang, jargon, neologisms, and readers' letters

You could look it up : more On language from William Safire by William Safire(
Book
)8
editions published
between
1988
and
1989
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
876 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A collection of 150 short essays from the author's weekly syndicated column, "On Language."

I stand corrected : more On language by William Safire(
Book
)7
editions published
between
1984
and
1986
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
836 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Leadership(
Book
)7
editions published
between
1990
and
2000
in
English
and held by
769 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Coming to terms by William Safire(
Book
)7
editions published
between
1991
and
1992
in
English
and held by
709 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Selections from the author's column, "On language," including letters to the author, which originally appeared in the New
York times, 1986-1988

Good advice(
Book
)6
editions published
between
1982
and
1992
in
English
and held by
691 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"More than 2,000 apt quotations to help you live your life," arranged alphabetically by subject

Quoth the maven by William Safire(
Book
)5
editions published
between
1993
and
2011
in
English
and held by
665 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
There are connoisseurs. There are virtuosos. And then there are mavens. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer William Safire is the
maven's maven. In this new collection from his New York Times Magazine column, "On Language," Safire - using alliteration,
puns, and other tricks of the writer's trade - offers a cornucopia of words, phrases, slang, and grammatical oddities, proving
once again why Time calls him "the country's best practitioner of the art of columny." Safire probes the surprising origins
of such expressions as "kiss and tell," "people of color," "stab in the back," "bonfire of the vanities," and the whole nine
yards. He attempts to explain what a White House press secretary meant when he announced, "We can't winkle-picker this anymore."
He even explores tricky new usages of the word "fax." Quoth the maven: "In work conducted at home or at the office, the only
certainties are death and faxes." Was George Bush (or speechwriter Peggy Noonan) the first to put "kinder and gentler" together?
No, quoth the maven, who calls attention to similar incantations by Clarence Darrow, Mario Cuomo, and William Shakespeare.
Safire also traces the evolution of "read my lips" and exposes the proud (or embarrassed) coiners of such terms as "lunatic
fringe" and "nattering nabobs of negativism" (his own creation, he admits - an update of Adlai Stevenson's "prophets of doom
and gloom"). Never one to shrink from a challenge, the maven boldly seeks a source for George Bush's inexplicable expression
"like ugly on an ape." The best he can find is Margaret Mitchell's "ugly like a hairless monkey" in Gone with the Wind. Fortunately,
Safire is not alone in such lexicographic quests. A faithful corps of would-be mavens - including Cuomo, Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
Phyllis Schlafly, and Alistair Cooke - supply Safire with their own research and opinions. Knowledgeable, witty, and impeccably
grammatical, William Safire's essays on language are an important and entertaining reference for mavens everywhere